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 Stacy Vynne, The Resource Innovation Group Aerial view of Portland, © DubbaG (via Wikipedia) The question of how to design and implement effective adaptation measures is one that I think most adaptation practitioners are still struggling with, and will continue to struggle with, for many years to come. With hundreds of adaptation initiatives [...]  Eliot Levine, Jonathan Cook, Sarah Freeman (WWF-US)
Click the image to download a copy of Shifting Course. “Adaptation is not a specialist issue — it’s an issue of how decisions are made, and how to utilize the information provided by specialists in the process of decision making”.
 By Jonathan Randall, Millennium Challenge Corporation © WWF-Indonesia/Harry Imagine you are walking down the street on your way to your favorite sandwich shop. You are dreaming about the amazing chicken sandwich you are about to order when all of a sudden an activist from Veggie Lovers Unite! hands you a flyer.On the front page [...]  By Regie Junio, Ateneo de Zamboanga University, Philippines Children fetching drinking water © Regina Junio Three years ago, I had the opportunity to work with a non-government organization in implementing development projects funded by official development assistance. One of the main objectives of the project was to establish marine protected areas (MPAs) through a [...]  By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron "Simply recognizing what constitutes good adaptation and how to avoid maladaptive practices can significantly reduce overall costs and go a long way towards ensuring long-term resilience." © Kate Holt Assessments of the global cost of adaptation have varied drastically, ranging from $4-109 billion per year. The World Bank [...]  Jojo Binay By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Jojo Binay, the newly elected Vice President of the Philippines, spoke at the close of the Asian Development Bank’s Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) this past week. Apart from being his first major policy speech, his remarks at the energy-focused event are noteworthy in that they focused heavily on [...] 
By Eliot Levine, WWF-US A recent UN policy brief discusses why water-related climate change adaptation is critical for achieving sustainable development around the world. As significant water shortages already exist, water is the medium through which climate impacts are going to be felt most immediately and most severely by many people. “Adaptation to climate change is urgent. Water [...]  Here’s a repost from Nick Sundt’s WWF Climate Blog, recounting the recent Adaptation Summit in Washington, published on Mon, 06/07/2010. The Administration of President Barack Obama took an important step toward national climate change preparedness when it convened on 25-27 May 2010 a National Climate Adaptation Summit in Washington, DC. The stated purpose of [...]  By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Hammad Naqi Khan, WWF-Pakistan Hammad Naqi Khan is Director of Programs at WWF – Pakistan and an expert on field-based environmental and water resource management projects. We caught up with Hammad during a recent conference in Washington, where he told us how WWF – Pakistan is working to prepare [...] 
By Eliot Levine, WWF-US Another insightful article from The Climate Desk, this time at Wired.com. While federal level adaptation planning for the U.S. is still in development, states like California have gone ahead and published their own state adaptation strategies. “By the mid-2000s, when the rest of the country was waking up to the challenge [...] |
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